- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:52:39 +0100
- To: public-linked-json@w3.org
On 6/30/11 11:52 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote: > On 06/30/2011 4:50 AM Kingsley Idehen wrote: >> You are saying, in plain English, with regards to basic computer >> science: >> >> Disambiguating a Name from an Address doesn't matter when constructing >> Linked Data Structures. > Basically, yes, that's what I'm saying. But I was also saying that if you would like to disambiguate them, you should make it easier to talk about the more common case and that's in my opinion talking about the Thing. I don't recall this sort of journey re. computer science fundamentals pre network enhanced hyperlinking via HTTP. > >> If that were true, I wouldn't even be able to send this email. > Has nothing to do with the current discussion but would be interested to know why that's the case. Email and every other application are driven by "data access by reference". That's how programs are written. That's intrinsic to computing (all forms, even pre. Silicon). > I find that example a bit amusing because I'm entering my e-mail address every day in dozens of applications to identify *myself* without appending a +me or any other fragment. That's a different conversation. But if you think about this a little, the following should resonate: 1. An email address is a mailto: scheme URI 2. mailto: URIs can be made to resolve to representations of their Referents via protocols such as Webfinger and Foingerpoint 3. a resolvable mailto: scheme URI takes email sender identification beyond literal values (why SPAM is so trivial to generate and so difficult to kill) such that you can actually use logic to verify the identity of the mail sender via a digital certificate 4. generation of the digital certificate doesn't require CA network 5. verification of the digital certificate doesn't require CA network. All of that happens because when Names and Addresses are distinct you can do this: 1. de-reference mailto: scheme URI 2. see if the mailto scheme URI is in a formal relation with a Public Key. Based on the above, you can tweak existing protocols such as TLS/HTTPS and S/MIME. And that leads you to WebID which is a great example of Linked Data utility and the fundamentals of "data access by reference" combined with trust logic. The only thing that is different today is that URIs allows us to operate at InterWeb scales when exploiting Linked Data structures. > I think we won't find a consensus on this because there's no real true or false IMHO. Since it's not really related to the problem we are addressing, neither to the proposal I made I would suggest to put this discussion aside and move on. > No, we debate ourselves to real life implementations of our world views. WebID is a practical example of a problem based on these fundamentals. Links: 1. http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID . > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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